By ("Fox News Latino," September 15, 2011)
Extracted from http://wwrn.org/articles/36176/?§ion=occult
Mexico City, Mexico – A leader of the Holy Death sect was sentenced to 12 years in prison for forging a voter's registration card, the Mexican Attorney General's Office said.
David Romo Guillen, who heads what is formally known as the Traditional Catholic Church, and eight other people were arrested last December on kidnapping and extortion charges.
Investigators in that case found Romo used a voting credential bearing his photograph and a different name to open bank accounts for the alleged purpose of receiving ransom payments.
Romo and the other defendants are still awaiting trial on the kidnapping and extortion charges, the AG's office said.
The Holy Death sect, which claims to have 5 million members around the world, has its principal church in Mexico City and has spread across Mexico, including to the U.S. border region, where followers erect altars, make offerings and ascribe miracles to it.
Mexican police say several drug lords number among the sect's adherents, as altars and images of the Holy Death have been discovered in raids.
Various factions within the sect appear to be embroiled in a power struggle.
- In my opinion, in which I am in no means defending Romo, I thought the sentencing of 12 years seems to be rather strict. But upon further investagation checking how long someone can be incarcerated for identiy theft in the US and finding out that is it is punishible by 5-30 years. After learning this the notion that Romo was unlawfully sentenced for a lesser crime having been involved but not yet sentenced for a more sever crime is false. The Mexican goverment had the right to sentence Romo, in my opinion. for 12 years in prison.
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